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“Maybe it would be good to have it when I’m older. To be like ‘Ah, that’s what I used to look like!’” The Polish model Malgosia Bela is showing me a 3D photo rendering of her naked body on her iPhone. As we speak the sculpture itself is being printed, set to be used in what I’m told is a secret shoot Malgosia has flown into London for from her hometown of Warsaw.

I meet her surrounded by make-up and hair paraphernalia in the studio’s dressing room. She’s wearing a white towelling robe, her hair gelled and pinned tightly to her scalp whilst her eyebrows have been bleached white and the only makeup she sports is an almost lurid crimson lip.